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Old 01-06-2008 | 08:05 AM
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Hoytail Hunter
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Default Insult to... well, insult. (long)

I havepermission to hunt this guy's backyard, about100 acres total. In WI there are "earn a buck" deer management units where you have to shoot an antlerless before you are issued a buck tag. This spot happens to be one of them. Anyway, last weekend I was out trying to get a doe. And I got one, but not before a beautiful 130"er walks by and all I could do was watch... INSULT! [:@]

It gets better- yesterday, I was out there again hoping to see that buck again but only expecting to see does if even that. Near the end of legal light I spot some movement about 70yds away and at first all I saw was legs, long long longlegs. Then I saw the hugest deer body I'd ever seen in my 17+ years of hunting. This includes all the deer I've ever seen in the back of anybody's pick-up truck too. Then finally, I saw its massive rack!!! I'mnoscoring pro but I have a pretty good ideaabout how much a buck scores when I see it. Put it this way, the onlybucks I've seen that big were at Cabela's and Bass Pro. He looked to be about 180" with a 2 foot spread.I about pissed my pants it was ridiculous. Top it off, I'm on the ground so the deer looked even more towering.

He comes in closer and closer zig zagging from the 3 o'clock position. When he walks behind a thick patch of trees 35yds from meI slowly draw. All I needed now was for him to walk another 5ft to get out from behind that patch of trees. This is where it all started to go downhill. I don't know if he knew something was up but he stopped there for a whole minute which seemed forever. When all of a sudden he decides to turn and walk straight towards me. In my head I was screaming NOOOOOOOO!!! Well, now he was at 25yds and looking dead at me. I'm dressed in all white to blend in with the snow and I'm behinda fairly thick patch of saplings. This helped a bit but there's no fooling the big dog.

He stared dead at me with my bow drawn and pointed at him. This was when I realized my bow was shaking. LOL LOL LOL, well not at the time though. I thought about putting the arrow right through his grunt tube but thought twice because I wasn't that confident in myself not to mention I was shaking and about to go into convulsions. LOL... so what can a guy do at this point but hope he turns right? Well, he did turn but it was to run.

THE END!
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